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NEVER Be Afraid To Ask Me A Question About Old/Obscure British Characters
2013 is a long time ago now but I had no idea that I was the subject of a LOT of discussion on the Comic Book Plus forum. I won't name names for obvious reasons but I do recall someone was hitting...
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Streamline no. 3 Moved So Fast From My Collection -I Never Knew It Was Gone!
You see, at one time I was a complete trusting moron. My home was an open house for comickers and while we worked and talked they would also delve into my collection. A good few books...
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Baby Buster and Spick and Span
Now I am not going to say "effete trendies from art college" or elite cliques but the Platinum Comics people can be narrow minded, ignorant and just outright rude. I once pointed out that there were...
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The Man Who Laughs At Scotland Yard: The Red Spider!!
Our sister site -UK Golden Age Heroes (blog list to right) has had The Chuckling Prowler posted to it....no, that is a character!Anyway, I thought what we needed here is a glimpse of a very long lost...
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Masked Justice in the Old West -Leatherface!
Previously I presented The Outlaw Sheriff from D C Thomsons Adventure no. 1346 4th November, 1950https://britishgoldenagecomics.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-outlaw-sheriff.htmlImagine my surprise,...
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Cooperation On Gathering British Golden Age Material
Thrill Comics no. 1, April, 1940. Does it exist? Well, yes but you might not think so if you looked for information. William A. Ward's character The Bat appeared in that first issue and a later later...
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Merry and Bright -Help Needed To ID Year
It is an oddity in my collection of old stuff: Merry and Bright Published by John F. Shaw & Co., Ltd., London.According to a search result:"John F. Shaw & Co., Ltd., a London-based publisher,...
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Igor...The Beginning
Igor by Edward Lowe who worked in A. Soloway comics titles no real information on him but this Igor strip is from All Star Comic Vol. 4 no. 4I have been searching for a long time but part 2 of this...
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The 'Ultimate' Book of British Comics
Just a little warning.I ordered this book from Amazon as I did not recognise the cover. What I got was THIS book the cover of which I DID recognise. I would not recommend it since there is nothing...
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Big Mouth Strikes Again and admits "I Got It Wrong!"
I defined the various ages of British comics and to be honest I thought 1939-1951 was the British Golden Age period. It appeared in the header for a long time. I was wrong. As I have delved into...
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The British Bat-Men!
As most of you will know, this year marks the 75th anniversary of Batman. However, the notion of costumed 'bat-men' didn't originate with Bob Kane's creation. One such earlier character was Batsowl,...
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Think About How You Buy
I was asked why my books are so expensive on Ebay/ Amazon? Well, I DO NOT sell via Ebay or Amazon. What you have there are people who buy the book from my online store and then re-price (hiking up the...
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I Hope I Get Enough Time To Revive This One
One of the characters I want to bring back to a modern audience is "the old fella" who is a pretty (very) obscure character but with a lot of potential. Sadly, I would rather be drawings than...
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Comic Bits 3 -A Treasure Trove of Lost, Found and Forgotten!
A4Colour/BW80pp£10.00 UKhttps://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/comic-bits-no-3-2026/paperback/product-q6wqden.html?page=1&pageSize=4Comic Bits is the only journal dealing with the Platinum,...
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Tornado Meets The Sea Beast!
I know what you are thinking: "Are there pages missing?"Nope. Artists were told to provide a full story in 4 pages then they produced 4 page stories. I think the idea was that there was enough to give...
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Melmoth the Wanderer
1819 engraved portrait of Maturin -from a Russian edition of the work Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Robert Maturin (1770-1824), published in 1820 and considered the last of the classic English...
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The Monk:A Romance -Readers were shocked by its sexually explicit content
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Lewis. It was over 10 years ago that I read it for the second time (I really like to punish myself!) and I started to write a synopsis of the story and...
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The Skeleton Crew, or, Wildfire Ned
Author(s) remained anonymous as content could be violent, sexual or otherwise publicly offensive! And on occasions several people wrote these chapters. A gentleman would never want his name associated...
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The Ultimate British Golden Age Comics Collection
A4PaperbackB&W405 pagesPrice: £25.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business...
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The Atomic Age Comic
Does anyone have any scans or can scan The Atomic Age Comic? What scans I have are pages...well...NOT scans. The pages were photographed back in the old Yahopo group days.If anyone can...
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Ah Wong
Still a classic strip though it could send the PC crowd into seizures. But this is comic book history.
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A. Soloway All Star Comic volume 5 -anyone have scans or copies?
Now I know that over the many years I ask and ask and ask and to date have never received any type of response....I am an eternal optimist (without the ternal aspect).I amn looking for scans of A...
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